Neo-Nazis attack 2 Israelis in Belgrade

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Bojana Petković and Yariv Avram were beaten by the hooligans wearing Nazi t-shirts and singing Nazi songs. What is even more worrying is the fact the police present at the concert held at Belgrade’s Tašmajdan stadium have so far done nothing to locate the perpetrators.

Attending a concert in the capital might prove to be dangerous for foreigners, Israeli citizens in particular. The two Israelis have experienced precisely this when they attended a Tašmajdan concert after spending, in their words, two wonderful weeks in Serbia.

Instead of entering the stadium, they ran into a group of Skinheads on the stairs. “They surrounded us singing ‘Auschwitz’ to me. They yelled at me that I am a bloody Jew and asked me whether I knew what my country did to theirs. They shouted: go to Germany. Then my friend stepped in and we started running, but they caught up with us and started beating us with all their might. They hit me on the head, one of them hit my eye. They hit my friend too. It was horrible”, Yariv Avram recounted.

“We started running, but they surrounded us again and started beating us. Yariv was hit on the head and body, and they kicked me around. We somehow managed to reach the police”, Bojana Petković said. Yariv Avram now has a stitched forehead, while his friend is covered in bruises. The Israeli embassy in Belgrade has been notified of the incident.